Enter The Body
Download or Read eBook Enter The Body PDF written by Carol Chillington Rutter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Carol Chillington Rutter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134767809 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134767803 |
Rating | : 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Enter The Body by : Carol Chillington Rutter
Book excerpt: 'Enter the Body' offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britain today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.